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Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Post by toddwahnish »

khuknows wrote: post #8

I run https://uimovement.com/ and it makes just over $1,000 a month from sponsorships and ads most months. The majority of that is from sponsorships for the weekly newsletter, which has almost 13,000 subscribers now. Currently doing cust dev and what not to see if there are income opportunities that don't involve ads.

That's awesome - I've been a big fan of uimovement!

How did you determine the pricing for sponsorships? Is there a good guide out there?

We're looking at possibly adding sponsorships to the https://rubythursday.com/ newsletter next year.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Post by fodoj »

I made a platform where people can hire a mentor to learn programming (ruby/rails, frontend, devops, big data). I've focused on mentorship with a per-week payment, so not a 1hour tutor or 15min "solve concrete task" service, but a real, long-term mentor dedicated to sharing all the knowledge with students.

Initial customers base grew from the free ebook I wrote and various blog posts available on the website. Lots of success are due to email newsletter, which I'm trying to keep useful and rarely send any ads there.

I'm taking 20% from each payment and that's be growing quiet well so far, especially after entering english-language market. Website is https://mkdev.me/en

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Post by csallen »

conorgil145 wrote: post #228
csallen wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think all of this advice is spot on. It's what I've experienced myself working on Taskforce and Indie Hackers, and it's backed up by what I've learned from interviewing ~40 founders of profitable businesses in the past few months. Picking a good market might be the biggest thing. If you pick a market you don't understand, it's way harder to build a good product that solves an important problem well. You end up gues…

Thanks for sharing park.io, I'd never heard of it. Do you have any links to related reading? I'd love to hear about how it was built, how profitable it is, etc, etc.

No problem, you can read about it here: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/park-io

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Post by kilroy123 »

carlmungz wrote: post #217
kilroy123 wrote: post #212

You never said net or profit. My side project is now making over $1,000 in revenue. Soon it will actually be profitable. It's an apparel company for women who like to: hunt, fish, and be outdoors. VERY random for a vegetarian software develop, from Portland. https://henoutdoors.com

How did you get that up and running? A friend of mine started this label therhinestonecompany.bigcartel.com as a side project and I joined a year ago. We had (and still do) a lot of interest but we both became busy. But I'm tempted to pick it up again only because I feel it would do well with proper execution. I've been a silent Hacker News reader the past year or so (I'm a journalist turned coder) but your post grab…

I've been meaning to write a blog post about it...

We use Shopify with a printing and fulfillment service: http://theprintful.com

It's been a decent amount of work, to be honest.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Post by touchingwood »

fodoj wrote: post #234

I made a platform where people can hire a mentor to learn programming (ruby/rails, frontend, devops, big data). I've focused on mentorship with a per-week payment, so not a 1hour tutor or 15min "solve concrete task" service, but a real, long-term mentor dedicated to sharing all the knowledge with students. Initial customers base grew from the free ebook I wrote and various blog posts available on the website. Lots of…

Love this idea. How do you vet the teachers and how do you make sure they keep going through your site (and not just go direct)?

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Post by aerialfish »

erikrothoff wrote: post #34

I made http://feeder.co , a Chrome extension to simulate Firefox's RSS live bookmarks back in 2010. Now it has 500,000 active installs on Chrome and our cloud hosted service is netting around 1500 USD each month after costs (1700 subscriptions). Me and my twin brother have had it as a passive income thingie for years. After a failed attempt at selling it (SaaS metrics are NOT easy) we met a guy who saw some potential…

Wow didn't expect to see you here! I've been a paying customer for years (though I had a paying hiatus when a iOS app update left many of my blogs poorly rendered). I had no idea it was just a side project. Keep up the good work.
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